Health Workforce Australia 2012-13 Work Plan

1. BUILDING CAPACITY
1.9 Nursing - Retention, Training
Capacity and Productivity
Purpose
HW 2025 findings identify retention of nurses in the workforce as the most
significant factor in reducing the projected gap between supply and demand
for nurses. This project will focus on workplace, employer and training
responses to nursing retention and reform, inclusive of approaches to
leadership and management, industrial relations practice and KPIs, as well as
examining attraction of early career graduates.
This work will complement other HWA projects which target factors impacting
on nurse retention and training reform (see under Productivity). It will identify
workplace, industrial and management practices from the literature (e.g.
Magnet Hospitals) proven to be positively correlated with nurse retention, and
assess their current state of uptake and adoption across the health sector. It will
also identify potential KPIs of best practice and propose training reforms which
could be incorporated into HWA’s suite of clinical training reform programs.
Key activities
The key activities to be undertaken in 2012-13 include:
Reviewing literature for best practice in nursing retention relevant to workplace,
employer, industrial and training practice.
Analysing uptake and adoption rates of evidence based best practice
approaches to retention of nurses across Australia by sector and what works in
relation to attraction for early career graduates.
Identifying KPIs of best practice retention at enterprise and sector level.
Identifying management, regulatory and industrial barriers and enablers to
adoption of best practice in retention.
Developing reform options, inclusive of high level economic analysis, for
consideration by governments, higher education sector, employer and
professions.
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